Book 3 – Destroyer finds Zed saying goodbye to one friend and pressing forward with two new ones to whom we are introduced in Book 2 – Infected. Mandi, whom Zed and Murphy rescued from the bunker, is immune to the virus. Russell, whose home the others plundered in search of food and other supplies, is also a slow burn, but lower-functioning, childlike and docile.

After seeing the carnage at the dormitory, a raging, vengeful Zed wants only to kill Mark, his nemesis and the former leader of the ROTC squad. Since Mark has disappeared, Zed unleashes his fury on untold numbers of infected in his path as he makes his way back to the hospital, in an attempt to rescue Steph, a nurse whom he befriended while seeking help for the feverish Murphy shortly after the prison riot. But the brave medical staff, holed up on the tenth floor of the hospital, and running out of provisions, has decided to take matters in hand by exposing themselves to the virus, and shooting those who “turn.” Zed is determined not to face another loss, but once again, time is running out…

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I'm just going to put this out there: I grew up with an irrational fear of Flying Monkeys. How is a little kid supposed to know that they only exist in Oz? I'm not a native of any state. I've lived in so many that I see myself as a native American, which works out for me since I am also fractionally a Native American to an improbable, yet significant degree. I lived more than half of my life in Texas and I have a great affinity for Austin. it is a wonderfully diverse city full of interesting people. I now live in Colorado where I enjoy spending my time in the mountains, cycling, hiking, or walking my dogs. Oh, and writing... I do that too. Join me on my Facebook page if you just can't get enough of my BS or want some insight into upcoming books. www.facebook.com/BobbyAdairAuthor

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This an interesting twist on the zombie genre. No walking corpses, just deranged sick people who don't feel pain and do want to eat fresh meat. We just happen to be the easiest meat to catch.

But the twist is there are 3 classes of human left. Immune, the tastiest meat out there, infected, who die or turn white and start munching, and the Slow Burns who are infected but don't die or turn. And these zombies are complicated! They change, some of them learn.... cooperate.... some of them are smart!

The narrator is one of the Slow Burns and he is tortured, complicated and twisted .....before the appocolypse even happens. You can not help but root for him even as you wonder if he's salvageable.

I just finished book 3 of Slow Burn and all I can say is OMG!!! Books 1 and 2 were great but this book is awesome.Bobby, you have definitely out done yourself. The end has left me on my knees begging for more. As a reader of anything zombie I have to say this is definitely one of the best series I've read in a long time. I can't wait for book 4 I hope it isn't to long in the making. One warning if you don't like cliff hangers you may want to wait to read this until book 4 is out.

If you start reading Book 3 of the Slow Burn series before reading the other ones, better read the others first. You will be missing out on a lot of good reading if you do. These book are excellent!

Zed and his buddies keep adding to their little troop but not with out a lot of fighting, ass kicking, violence and gore to get there. You know, the usual. And each time Zed and his friends engage the Whites you know there will be some action and there is plenty of that. Just when they think they have this infecting thing figured out and a course of action, it gets screwed up. They simply are not prepared for this at all but they keep on trying and evolving and unfortunately so do the Whites. I just can't put these books down. They are that good. The books are not long, usually between 200 and 250 pages and they take off where they left off in the previous book. Do yourself a favor and read these books. The remind me of the Walking Dead books and right now I can't tell which set of books I like better. Now on to Book 4.

Two stars, four, three, four, who knows? I finally gave it three just because of that ridiculous cliff hanger stop. I'm also tired of the end notes explaining things: the pressures Adair is under, his philosophy of life, how lucky we are we didn't have to read the first draft, how thankful he is to his proofreaders and editors (!), etc.

Pacing is still superlative in this installment (it's not a book - it's barely 100 pages; it's the third installment of a book). And Zed is still all over the place. This time, enraged over something he discovered at the end of the second installment, he goes berserk for a while and shoots up the university campus, drawing thousands of infected. But hey, this time around, Adair gives us the full breakdown of just how brutally the ogre and the harpy abused Zed, so, y'know, we should understand that he's not always altogether there (nice try).

Anyway, by the time Zed gets into the hospital and finds the remaining survivors (a quarter of the way into the installment), Adair finally gets down to business, finds his pacing, and settles into that tense, short-sentence style that drives the plot and heightens the emotions. The dialogue is better than installment two and Dalhover is a great addition to the cast. Also, developments among the infected are beautifully and chillingly introduced. When thousands of them swarm the farmhouse, it's a bad moment, and well handled.

Hopefully at some point a real editor gets hold of this thing and really has a go at it for content and consistency, not just typos and awkward phrases.

Anyway, three stars, bordering on four. I'll download the next installment, but I'm not sure I'm going beyond that.

DARN IT! Just finished this last book. There should be another one out soon. I'm so angry right now! I wasn't prepared for it to end like that, I need more...what happens? Well crap, I hate waiting for future installments. It sucks!

This was a really good book but it was so intense . I wanted to laugh, cry, shout and curse. Some times all at the same time. You want so badly to be there to help, console and just be there to help them survive. Man, it really gets you going. I was telling my son, who doesn't really like to read much, about this series and how I thought he would enjoy the books. I think he wants to read them after I finish. I've never read zombie books before. My son and I both like the zombie series on TV though. This series tells the stories of the survivors of a horrible viral sickness that takes over the world. Infecting everyone. A few are immune and others get sick but after a few days of unconsciousness they recover their humanity to different degrees. Some come all or most of the way back mentally but are changed physically while others turn into mindless monsters that want nothing but to kill and eat their fellow man, women or child. Others are somewhere in between in varying degrees of consciousness . It tells of the horror and the pain of surviving and losing friends and loved ones in horrible soul destroying ways. It's a story of the survival of the few a d what must be done to survive, hopefully with your humanity and your sense of self intact. The author does a great job with all of it. I hope I'm making sense. I've been up way to long and am about to pass out but wanted to get this over and done with. Well, I'm waiting..... for the next t book. Hurry up, PLEASE!!!